thx for the boolean hint. sounds logic and tried that a minute before. it doesnīt work. if the boolean attribute is once applied (rotateY) the Y-axis is locked with 1 (which might mean boolean incoming connection) but it cant be rotated anymore. X,Z no problem but Y is fixed.

i think its because u are maybe applying as an expression not a control attribute.

if u do it as a control attr, it will change color, but it will not be locked.
works for me fine when i need to use it.

hm. for me it isnīt working. and I did like U said. no expression, just added a boolean attribute on the joint and set it to 1. even if itīs turned off, the rotation is locked. I couldnīt even tell where to look for salvation. Hypergraph has no information - maybe the Graph Editor would be the place to go, but Iīm not very familiar with it yet.

donīt waste your time anymore friend. there will be a solution some day. Iīm just not that far to have a global understanding of maya. thank you though valdimir!

thx for the link Jango, bookmarked it! his site is very informative. but I guess Iīm missing some very basic context here. Iīll go on with painting weights and setting influence objects and have a look at SDK again soon, cause right now I feel like reaching deadlock.

kind regards!

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Id probably copy the settings into a text doc then change all from left to right, then set up the numeric values on the SDKs for the opposing hand again copied from the left but again change the orientation from positive to minus (depending) then just copy and paste each one accordingly.

at first I didnīt understand what you mean by that, maybe because it is the most reasonable solution... I tried to find a way for quickly minus scaling the damn hand and get it somehow into hirarchy at the other side. but I failed on finding an easy way without any unneccessary transform nodes which have odd rotation values themselfs.

in the end i found myself writing down the SDK values into wordpad by hand like you do Jay. but Iīm asking mayself if there is a MEL way to automatically get all selected L_jointīs .rotationXYZ values, to store them somewhere and apply them to the opposite R_Joints...?

unfortunately I donīt know anything about MEL. but I got interested in now.

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LOL! It might take me another 2 days to understand what you just said.

I donīt quite know what I should rename here - the applied SDKs? what I figured out yet is to grab the rotation values from all lefthand fingers and transfer them to the righthand fingers in one simple step. I just donīt know what this simple step could be...

when the values have been transfered once I would just select the joints + locator and KEY them. with textEditor itīs very time-consuming to manually transfer each rotValue.

but thx alot for this workaround!

kind regards
daniel

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'A SDK produces an anim curve, thats all its really doing. So if open up the hypergraph and find the curve, u can just dup it and connect it to the mirror joint and the mirror driver. Depending on ur joint orientation u might need to flip some of the animation in the graph editor, or stuff in a reverseNode.

Its something thats best of scripted tho.'

Hope it works. You can thank Andimation at www.Jonhandhisdog.com in the general questions forum if it works

okay! sounds interesting. Iīll try it tonight when have time.
as a preview as you can see here, there are pretty loot of animation curves connected to a lot of joints. this would only be 4 added attributes to control the left hand.

I will tell here when I figured out how to do..

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Im adding my first influence object and it wonīt influence the body by component type. there is this option "Use Components" from the skinCluster2. turning it on should allow me to tweak the verts from the influence object, not only its transform node and have influence on the parentGeometry.

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